Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package container-tools:rhel8/podman-docker  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-CONTAINERTOOLS-17894045
  • published8 Jul 2026
  • disclosed22 May 2026

Introduced: 22 May 2026

CVE-2026-42502  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream container-tools:rhel8/podman-docker package and not the container-tools:rhel8/podman-docker package as distributed by RHEL.

Parsing arbitrary HTML which is then rendered using Render can result in an unexpected HTML tree. This can be leveraged to execute XSS attacks in applications that attempt to sanitize input HTML before rendering.